BIO:  Peter WELLER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 56

PETER WELLER, marble dealer, was born in Germany in November, 1824.  His father, 
Jacob, came to this country while Peter was quite young, and located in Spring 
Garden Township, where he took up a tract of land.  Peter assisted his father on 
the farm, and in the meantime attended the common school.  He remained on the 
farm with his father till he was twenty years of age, when he learned the shoe-
making trade, and followed it about three years.  About the year 1878 he formed 
a co-partnership with Edward Evans, and engaged in the marble business at York.  
The firm of Weller & Evans subsequently by mutual consent dissolved partnership, 
and Mr. Weller has continued the business in his own name.  Mr. Weller married, 
in April, 1850, Miss Matilda, daughter of George Loucks, of York.  Mr. Weller is 
a member of the Penn Mutual Relief Association, and has for several years been a 
member of the Lutheran Church.